Fascism

The liberal warmonger, the bourgoise reactionary and the mendacious mercenary

Martyn Richard Jones — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:45:00 GMT

WORK IN PROGRESS

The following article was written in response to a blog article, written by Nick Cohen, "Why I wouldn't ban BNP members from being teachers", and published by The Observer (Sunday 28 June 2009) on The Guardian's Comment is Free online blog site.

The original blog article is here: Why I wouldn't ban BNP members from being teachers

Ultra-nationalists of a feather, flock together. Take one bourgoise reactionary, one liberal warmonger, and one mendacious mercenary, mix together with some well dodgy intellectual and cultural basis, then don't allow to set. Serve up on a layer of instinct and blind prejudice, to the delight of a baying pack of shrieking-racist misanthropic twits.

With friends like these: Israel and the non-Jewish right

Martyn Richard Jones — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:24:00 GMT

WORK IN PROGRESS

When little boys and girls have more hate and blind prejudice than reason:

Mendacious, idiotic or nasty comments that I have encountered on The Guardian's CiF blog pages from so-called supporters of Israel. There is no statistical and scientific classification for any comments, the content in itself should be enough of an indicator.

1. Hypocrisy?

juanandre

16 Jun 09, 1:21am (6 minutes ago)

I dread all those "right-wing" Israeli leaders. Begin gave the Sinai peninsula (bigger than Israel) to the Egyptians. Now there is no buffer zone between little Israel and Egypt. Then "right-wing" Netanyahu gave Bethlehem, capital of Judea, city of King David, forefather of Jew Jesus, to the arabs, to muslim terrorist Arafat

Oh dear..

2. Recondite Racism?

juanandre

16 Jun 09, 1:00am (27 minutes ago)

So the Jews in the US, a very small percentage of the population, dictates the country's foreign policy? O.k, you will answer that Jews are rich. And Christians are very corrupt - they do whatever the Jews tell them to for money? Is that the logic? What did you expect - the US, a free, democratic, Christian nation to side with the muslim dictatorships and jihadists? About the UN: I am not impressed by their resolutions. 99% of them concern Israel (as if there were no other problems in the world...). The UN today: more than 1/3 of its members are muslim (56 countries) meaning non-democratic + other dictatorships like Cuba, North Korea, etc. They love to speak freely at the UN forum, but at home there is no free press or freedom os speech. They love voting at the UN (against Israel, of course), but at home no elections. The UN is a joke. A new UN should be created, for democracies only - Japan, Australia, Europe, the US, Israel and some South American countries (few).

Racist pig.

3. Just Plain Nasty?

juanandre

16 Jun 09, 12:15am (about 1 hour ago)

MartyninEurope: Sorry, I wasn't telling the truth. Arab countries are civilized, peaceful, democratic and not corrupt. They treat their minorities very well. They don't kill each other all the time, they don't support islamic terror, they don't hang gays in public squares, they don't lynch girls, there are no mass graves in Iraq (and if you dig other arab countries you won't find any either). They don't mutilate girl's genitalia, they don't kill their own daughters for "honour" and also they don't kill their own sisters for the same reason. Arab mothers don't go on tv and proclaim to be happy because their suicide/homocide kids died killing infidels (or other muslims). Suha Arafat doesn't live in a luxury hotel in Paris (while they say they are starving in Gaza). Sorry MartyninEurope.
Sharia now in England? Or a bit later?

Here we go again.

4. Simply Trolling?

juanandre

16 Jun 09, 1:37am (7 minutes ago)

Already 22 arab states, one (or two, if we count Gaza) in Palestine, Jordan. A "viable Palestinian state". What is a viable arab state? Is Somalia viable? Is Sudan (the biggest arab state) viable? Lebanon? Algeria? A viable arab state would be one with democracy and without Islam.

Trolling idiot.

5. Idiocy?

juanandre

16 Jun 09, 2:17am (about 7 hours ago)

And can someone (arab or Jew-hater) explain me please why arabs have the right to 22 states (on stolen land) and Kurds to none? Why can arabs (Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and muslim Iran and Turkey) occupy the Kurd's only country and at the same time demand a third (after Jordan and Gaza) country in Palestine?

Nasty, knows no bounds.

6. Foolishness?

juanandre

16 Jun 09, 2:19am (about 7 hours ago)

And following that (or lack of) logic, can someone explain why arab muslim terrorist Arafat rushed to Iraq to kiss arab muslim dictator Saddam when he invaded Kuweit? Why are the "palestinian" arabs entitled to three states and the Kuweiti arabs to none?

Here we go again.

7. False WItness?

chasnb

16 Jun 09, 10:32am (about 4 hours ago)

Seven Jewish Children is Jew-bashing pure and simple. A shame you weren't brave enough to confront that, and instead just fudged it.

Will you be publishing the Gert Wilders film or the Danish cartoons? No. Funny that.

Cowardice and hypocrisy.

http://www.oyvagoy.com

Liars bluff.

8. Caryl Churchill is anti-Semitic?

pete999

15 Jun 09, 12:13am

Neither journalism nor art.

It was a simple statement of where the Guardian stands on the matter of anti semitic literature.

And it wasnt the place one would expect to find the left.

Ah, yes.

9. No to homophobia on CiF?

rainieri

23 Jun 09, 3:10am (about 4 hours ago)

This pub sounds like a really cool pub,that horny Israeli soldiers would love to frequent.Hopefully there will be tepid tea( that should be drunk with an extended pinky finger) served with alfalfa sandwiches that are mouth watering,and the riveting conversations about the latest methods of goat milking in Upper Mongolia should also be exiting.

I'm going to visit this pub,hoping it doesn't close before I get there.

Brazen homophobic shit!

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Viva La Quinta Brigada

Martyn Richard Jones — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:26:00 GMT

The men and women of the International Brigade are to be applauded for their effort to save Europe from fascism, and to save a democratic and constitutional state from the vicious onslaught of a band of internationally backed criminal insurgents.

Historically, conflict and strife almost invariably accompany the transition from a repressive regime to a secular, constitutional and democratic republic. In principle, this was no different in the case of Spain. That this attempted transition came at a time when much of Europe was embracing fascism is perhaps a major key to understanding part of the tragedy that is euphemistically termed "The Spanish Civil War".

The Spain of the Spanish Republic was by no means perfect, far from it, but it meant that Spain was a far better place than that which preceded, and that which was to follow.

Against tremendous odds and the weight of a corrupt and oppressive church hierarchy, sections of the army and much of the conservative ruling classes, the republic made great efforts to improve the situation in Spain. Women, of all classes, were free to study and to work, and to take part in society on a more egalitarian basis. Activities previously prohibited, by law or by taboo, were to become simply an exercise of liberty and rights. Education was to become accessible to all, regardless of class. Political pluralism flourished, as never before, regional autonomy and federalism were to become a reality and censorship pared back as never before. Real political power was now in the hands of the people.

It is difficult for people, in this day and age, where many of us see politics as merely another service, to fully understand the dramatic improvements that the republic signified for many ordinary working people and their families.

The Spanish Civil war was the first major confrontation with authoritarianism and fascism in Europe. When it came to the crunch, the so-called democracies were found desperately wanting. After a democratic, constitutional and secular Spain had been isolated and forced to fail in its resistance to fascism, the rest of the drama was to follow. In wilfully denying support to a legitimate government in Europe, the allies opened the floodgates that would eventually result in the millions of deaths, tremendous destruction and the fascist/nazi perpetration of The Holocaust.

A couple of additional things also worth bearing in mind:

1. The church hierarchy in Spain overwhelmingly supported the insurgents against the established secular state, and was effectively complicit with them in their crimes from the very beginning, and primarily because the Republic, which declared Spain to be a secular and democratic state, lost its hegemony in Spain.

2. The non-combat deaths, especially summary executions, were not a novelty and nuns and priests were by far the most effected; for example, the insurgents executed many anarchists, later claiming it was an act of the state.

3. In the province of Córdoba alone, 2,300 people were executed by those loyal to the constitutional state, whilst 7,500 people were executed by the insurgents – in the city of Córdoba alone, more than 4,000 Republicans were executed.

4. For forty long years, and with few honourable exceptions, the Catholic Church in Spain protected and encouraged the brutal fascist dictatorship of Franco. In that time, many people were tortured, murdered, imprisoned or exiled. Many of those who were tortured, murdered, imprisoned or exiled – por Rojos – were also Catholics, just not the type of Catholics that the fascists or the Church wanted.

5. The anarchists have not formally apologised for the killing of nuns and priests, yet the Catholic Church has not apologised for its own explicit support of the Dictatorship, during its forty years of repression.
Of course, there is a lot more to the story than just these simple points.

It is to be remembered that the war in Spain was not a question of two bands opposed to each other, but the defense of a democratic republic and a democratically elected government, against a band criminal insurgents who sought to bring down the government and remove the republican system of democracy.

The criminal insurgents and their international backers sought to turn back the tide that had brought in – amongst other things - the separation of church and state; an established republic; secular education; a nascent public health system; greater equality; the removal of the interference of the catholic church; greater autonomy and local decision making in the regions of Spain; and, the acceptance and promotion of a secular society and culture.

Those who fought on the side of the republic against the criminal fascists were many, very few were trained soldiers, many who fought and died in defense of the republic were liberals, humanists, unionists, socialists, communists and idealists; from Spain, and elsewhere.

The brave and legitimate defense of a democratic republic against the criminal insurgence and their mercenaries failed, and Spain was consigned to 40 years of fascism; a damning indictment of the lies and betrayal of the allies in the run up to world war two.

Nothing will change the facts of history, yet it is shameful that people will still salute Nazis, talk of criminal insurgents as if they were on the same moral and legal footing as the established rule of law and the constitution in a democratic republic. To pretend that there is no difference between the democratic state and those who would wish to violently overthrow it and replace it with a repressive, murderous and brutal dictatorship is naturally seen by any self-respecting democrat as both mendacious and perverse.

The men and women of the International Brigade tried to save a country from the grips of fascism. They assumed the work that those who were too cowardly or self interested wanted to assume. The allies opened the door to fascism/nazism in Europe, the International Brigade tried to help in stopping a tremendous and horrendous crime in progress.

¡No pasarán!